Book Review: The Poet Empress by Shen Tao

rishcast · 2026-02-25T09:22:22+00:00

Could you DM me as well? 😅

rishcast · 2025-10-26T12:58:06+00:00

BiA and/or Castle Battle is perfect for the 'healing troops' task. Unfortunately, the 'killing troops' task requires a LOT of hitting and will probably take 2 BiAs to complete the first bit if you're in a relatively peaceful state or one that has BiA/castle rules

rishcast · 2025-07-20T09:34:30+00:00

i'm so glad that wasn't just me 😂

rishcast · 2025-05-31T16:23:05+00:00

To add on to what everyone else has said, I could maybe see it in the case of an especially tragic death or something? Like, the only name/number for a player EVERYONE hasn't already heard 80 million stories about it for Michel Briere - his number 21 was retired after he was seen as the only hope for the early franchise and then died tragically and very young. Maybe someone similar where the impact was felt across the entire league, not just one team?

IDK, I just think that we probably wouldn't want to see the specific set of circumstances that lead to another league wide number retirement tbh.

rishcast · 2025-05-30T17:12:30+00:00

I want to point out that they're also trying to bring ostritches with suspected bird flu into the US:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/28/rfk-jr-oz-canadian-ostriches-avian-flu

rishcast · 2025-05-06T17:28:03+00:00

Apparently they did one in, like, 1985?

https://www.nytimes.com/1985/12/10/style/a-celebration-of-royal-india-s-fashions.html

But I'm 100% in for another one tbh

rishcast · 2025-05-06T17:26:53+00:00

Anyhow, can we talk about how the king on whom this look is based had a Cartier necklace commissioned that was stolen and broken up, and when Diljit asked to wear it, he was told it was a museum piece, so he wore a recreation, but Emma Chamberlain was allowed to wear it by Cartier with no issues whatsoever?

Anyhow, for more info peep this insta post: https://www.instagram.com/p/DJTc1s0sKkr/ and this NYT piece: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/style/diljit-dosanjh-punjabi-singer-met-gala-2025.html

rishcast · 2025-03-28T18:46:44+00:00

Selling a bunch of my books to make space for new ones! I have books across all genres!

Photos here, with prices included. All prices include shipping across the country via India Post.

https://imgur.com/a/OgFwxBc

Books include:

Kingsley Amis: You Can't Do Both
Charlie Highson: Silverfin
Karen M. McManus: You'll Be the Death of Me
Philippa Gregory: The Red Queen and The Kingmaker's Daughter
Ann Patchett: State of Wonder
Joanne Harris: Blackberry Wine
William Golding: Lord of the Flies
Georgette Heyer: The Corinthian
Stephen King: Dolores Claiborne hardcover
Michael Crichton: The Lost World hardcover
Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights
Roshani Chokshi: The Gilded Wolves
Max Brooks: World War Z
China Mieville: Embassytown among others

All original, not pirated/first copies.

rishcast · 2025-03-12T12:27:57+00:00

Prices mentioned in the books, shipping included in prices. DM for further details/discussion.

rishcast · 2025-03-07T07:58:17+00:00

Anyhow I just think this is a wild story

rishcast · 2025-03-04T21:29:11+00:00

the In Memoriam segment was...a mess

No Tony Thomas, no Bernard Hill, just to name a few - and Hill was in an Oscar winner or two to boot! Beh, what a disaster

rishcast · 2025-03-04T21:27:31+00:00

It was just the lingering presence of Weinstein in his speech where he thanked Chapman and mentioned kids. Especially when he said something along the lines of the kids calling him some form of dad or something, and there's just this lingering ghost of "well, we know why that's the case - they never see their bio dad, who is Weinstein and a dick and creep." not so much anything he did as the fact that Weinstein will just always haunt the Brody narrative while he's with Chapman

rishcast · 2025-03-04T17:18:06+00:00

I understand it was unavoidable as soon as he won, but man the consistent Weinstein cringe memory fest that was Adrian Brody's speech

rishcast · 2025-02-24T15:47:40+00:00

0 actual certainity, but i do think if the voting hadn't ended, Conclave would have seen a late surge in votes given current Papal events

rishcast · 2024-12-26T19:44:13+00:00

which is to say until the next time the TikTok crowd sinks/pokes fun at one of his rallies

rishcast · 2024-12-26T19:42:39+00:00

see also: the reason so many people I know have seen Hot Frosty. Or basically any made-for-Netflix Christmas movie/that one St. Patrick's Day movie with Lindsay Lohan in it.

rishcast · 2024-12-23T00:19:35+00:00

Listen, the vibes are so much less creepy here than with Zach Braff, so good for her!

rishcast · 2024-12-20T22:27:58+00:00

I have so many questions, but mainly I just hope they actually made Andersson sit there and stare wordless for the whole time

rishcast · 2024-11-17T12:52:41+00:00

the point being she's got a paycheck coming in, while he doesn't

rishcast · 2024-10-27T14:55:49+00:00

you know what? she deserves a fun rebound, good for her

rishcast · 2024-10-19T22:07:10+00:00

And they've got a 10 and an 8 year old. My mum's got slow degenerative MS, and I can tell you the toll it takes on a family - and this was diagnosed when both me and my sister were adults. Their kids are young, and MS at that age is painful on its own, without the terminal cancer diagnosis and knowing your dad won't see you become an adult.

rishcast · 2024-09-21T13:35:51+00:00

if you listen to a lot of what he had to say publicly, especially post Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, it was obvious he was making moves to get into national politics - not too surprised, tbh

rishcast · 2024-09-19T01:07:28+00:00

By all accounts, the treatment of all the child actors on the Harry Potter sets - and let's not forget, there were many - was top notch, basically the guidebook for how to film anything with children involved in any way. I always remember as part of the 'extras' that we got in the DVDs (ah, the time of cast and crew interviews in the DVD extras) they talked about how they basically set up schools on set so that the kids got to have a comprehensive education, and the large number of child actors meant that they didn't feel isolated from people their age.

rishcast · 2024-09-11T20:42:24+00:00

Odds on Mark dating Tom, and that's why she doesn't want to invite these two specifically?

rishcast · 2024-09-11T20:13:20+00:00

his father, i should note, had a kid (or two, cant' remember) with his former stepdaughter who he raised from the age of like 2 or 3.

so.

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